Poetry
Nonfiction
Drama
Fiction
Conventions
100
a poem that tells a story.
What is a narrative poem?
100
a sentence that introduces the topic and main idea of an essay
What is a thesis?
100
a play that ends harmoniously but is not always funny
What is a comedy?
100
the author's attitude toward the subject
What is tone?
100
a small word that connects two independent clauses when preceded by a comma (FANBOYS)
What is a coordinating conjunction?
200
a 14 line poem in which the argument comes in the couplet or sestet
What is a sonnet?
200
diction and syntax that makes nonfiction effective
What is rhetoric?
200
drama that portrays the world as incomprehensible and meaningless
What is Absurdist Drama?
200
when an author tells the reader directly about a character.
What is direct characterization?
200
the punctuation mark that separates two independent clauses when there is no coordinating conjunction
What is a semi-colon?
300
poetry that does not rhyme
What is free verse?
300
a play on words such as "seafood" and "see food"
What is a pun?
300
the imaginary "wall" between actors and audience members
What is the fourth wall?
300
when an author indirectly describes a character through actions, personality traits, thoughts, and quoted words?
What is indirect characterization?
300
a group of words containing a subject and a verb that cannot stand alone
What is a dependent clause?
400
a series of alphabetical letters that designate a pattern formed by the final words in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
400
repetition of words at the beginning of a sentence
What is anaphora?
400
a dramatic protagonist who is a regular, every-day person, rather than an admired nobleman
What is an anti-hero?
400
a story that begins in the middle
What is in media res?
400
giving credit within the text of a paper
What is parenthetical citation?
500
repetition of first and last sounds in two or more words
What is consonance?
500
use of the same grammatical structure in succeeding phrases or clauses
What is parallelism?
500
speech made by one character who is alone on stage
What is a soliloquy?
500
the atmosphere of a story
What is mood?
500
a series of periods that shows something is missing in a sentence or quote
What is ellipsis?
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